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The Adolescence of P-1
     heard on Sat 19 Sep 26
The Adolescence of P-1[1] is a 1977 science fiction novel by Thomas Joseph Ryan, published by Macmillan Publishing, and in 1984 adapted into a Canadian-made TV film entitled Hide and Seek. It features a hacker who creates an artificial intelligence named P-1, which goes rogue and takes over computers in its desire to survive and seek out its creator. The book questions the value of human life, and what it means to be human. It is one of the first fictional depictions of the nature of a computer virus and how it can spread through a computer system, although predated by John Brunner's The Shockwave Rider.

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Mitchell and Webb — Bronze Orientation Day
     heard on Sat 19 Sep 26
Bronze Orientation for stone-age chippers and tie-ers. A sketch from series 2 of That Mitchell and Webb Look.

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How to convert an old iMac into a 5K monitor for less than $200
     heard on Sat 19 Sep 26
With some careful modding, you can use an iMac as a display — and save more than $1,300 to get a high-end monitor similar to Apple’s pricey Studio Display. Apple’s Studio Display is one of only a small handful of 27-inch Retina 5K displays on the market, boasting a resolution of 5,120 × 2880. Unfortunately, it costs quite a handful — $1,599. If you have an old iMac 5K sitting around, you already have a computer with the exact same display panel inside. So if you are willing to spend about $190 in parts and can convert it to a Studio Display, you can save a big chunk of change.

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EWASTE+ electronics recycling
     heard on Sat 19 Sep 26
EWASTE+ is the trusted electronics recycling partner for a variety of customers, including local, national, and global companies, as well as governments, municipalities, and electronics manufacturers. These organizations come to us for one critical reason: they all value the importance of our secure, safe, and transparent process. We operate our facilities to the highest industry and government standards, and we handle everything from start to finish, including collection, logistics, secure processing, and data destruction.

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How to stop macOS Sequoia from resizing windows to fill your screen
     heard on Sat 19 Sep 26
A new feature can lead to inadvertent window resizing. macOS Sequoia windows tiling green button Credit: Foundry When you have an app’s windows sized just as you want them in macOS, it can be a shock when a slight movement in Sequoia suddenly causes the window to balloon to fill the screen. What changed? Apple added new options in System Settings > Desktop & Dock in the Windows section that can help you manage windows, but there’s one you may want to disable.

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Wispr Flow Dictation
     heard on Sat 19 Sep 26
Don’t type, just speak. The voice-to-text AI that turns speech into clear, polished writing in every app 4x faster than typing Voice that finally works is here. Flow lets you create, code, message, and write at the speed of thought, 4x faster than your keyboard.

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VLC - Media Player
     heard on Sat 19 Sep 26
VLC is a free and open source cross-platform multimedia player and framework that plays most multimedia files as well as DVDs, Audio CDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols.

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How to download your Google data
     heard on Sat 12 Sep 26
Important: If you download your Google data, it doesn’t delete it from Google’s servers. Learn how to delete your account or how to delete your activity. You can export and download your data for the Google products you use, for example:

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Archive or make copies of the information you store in iCloud
     heard on Sat 12 Sep 26
Learn how to archive or make copies of your iCloud Drive files, photos and videos, Safari bookmarks, and more. Making an archive of what you keep in iCloud is one more way to keep an extra copy of your information. Then if you accidentally delete an important contact, email, or document, you can restore it from iCloud or from another copy that you have.

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‘Your Photos Will Be Deleted Today’ Cloud Storage Scam Explained
     heard on Sat 12 Sep 26
You open your inbox and the subject line hits like a punch: your photos will be deleted today. Not next week. Not “soon”. Today. If you have years of family pictures, travel videos, and backups tied to a cloud account, that kind of message can short-circuit your judgment in seconds. That is exactly what scammers are counting on.

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